Tuesday, June 27, 2006

Scoreboard?

In the past 3 years of SeegerOlympic competitions, scoring hasn't been much of a problem. With just 3 competitors we were able to play events and simple chalk up a hatch mark for each victory.
Now with year 4, though, and two more competitors, a complication has arisen. Getting all 5 of us together at once, and able to compete in an event of someone's choosing may prove fairly difficult.

One suggested solution is that competitors are awarded 1 point for each individual they defeat, so in events involving all 5 competitors, the winner gets 4 points. This idea, though, would necessitate sub-rules, possibly such that each sub-set of players competing in events can only make up only half as many points as there are available from all 5-person events.

So, as of right now, we 5 have played two events (one ending in a tie, and one in a victory for Tim), making the total number of points up in the air 8. So, if, for example, jen and joel were to compete in an event one day, we could only play up to four games (making the maxiumum score for either player 4, half of 8). If tim, brooke, and andy played some events, they could only play 2 at this time (winning 2 points each, total of 4). While this scoring seems complicated, it's not andy's year to keep score, and i now have a master's degree. So, it should be fine. Please comment with further suggestions, though (we could just have a low-scoring competition, with fewer chances & an extra point awarded for each sub-group {joel vs. tim, joel vs. andy vs. tim, etc).

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